Description

This app organizes the vast and varied library of Rick Steves’ audio content into geographic-specific playlists so that travelers can enjoy ready access to the information that relates specifically to their travel plans. Many tracks provide general cultural and sightseeing information gleaned from his public radio program, Travel with Rick Steves. Other tracks are self-guided tours to great sights and historic walks. While we travel there’s lots of down time, and this application can both entertain and teach. Rick Steves Audio Europe will hopefully make your European travels more meaningful and more fun.

Features:

• The app downloads and stores audio files on your device. No Wi-Fi or cellphone connection is required to listen. (You will need a connection if you choose to add audio tracks later.)• Handy maps (PDF) that complement the self-guided audio tours can be viewed on your device or printed from any computer.• The audio content originates from Rick Steves guidebooks and the Travel with Rick Steves public radio program. Self-guided tours are excerpted from Rick Steves country and city guidebooks.• Rick Steves Audio Europe is a work in progress. New audio tracks will be added and existing tracks updated as necessary.Requirements:

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World Culture lover‘s dream app What a great learning tool! In particular, Danish social contract. As of 2014, using an Asus Nexus 7 2013 the app always crashes. Any fixes, please?!

What happened? Crashes all the time I have been very happy with this app using it on several trips. I am planning a new trip and tried multiple times to download new tracks but it crashes every time. Even tried uninstalling and reinstalling but nothing seems to work. Very disappointed

Galaxy S5 Crash Just purchased a new Samsung Galaxy S5 and installed Rick Steves Audio Europe. When I attempt to navigate to any track on the playlist I get a crash report stating "Unfortunately, Rick Steves has stopped. I uninstalled it and reloaded but no luck. Is there a fix?

Does no work Installed the app on two different Samsung Galaxy handsets but in both cases the app crashes as soon as an audio file is selected for download. No apparent way to track bugs or whether fixes are on the way.

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A Google User October 29, 2014

World Culture lover‘s dream app What a great learning tool! In particular, Danish social contract. As of 2014, using an Asus Nexus 7 2013 the app always crashes. Any fixes, please?!

What happened? Crashes all the time I have been very happy with this app using it on several trips. I am planning a new trip and tried multiple times to download new tracks but it crashes every time. Even tried uninstalling and reinstalling but nothing seems to work. Very disappointed

Galaxy S5 Crash Just purchased a new Samsung Galaxy S5 and installed Rick Steves Audio Europe. When I attempt to navigate to any track on the playlist I get a crash report stating "Unfortunately, Rick Steves has stopped. I uninstalled it and reloaded but no luck. Is there a fix?

Does no work Installed the app on two different Samsung Galaxy handsets but in both cases the app crashes as soon as an audio file is selected for download. No apparent way to track bugs or whether fixes are on the way.

Rick Steves Europe Rick and his team are incredible! You learn cultue, history, the humanities, and practical up-to-date travel tips... and more - presented in such a way its like being with a close friend sitting by the fireplace, chatting travel. I've been on independent Europe trips and always found learning from him PRIOR to the trips made my adventures 110% better than expected! He reveals all the tips one could possibly use (and need.) So, why only 4 stars? Won't download on my new Galaxy III. Bummer!

Fun, useful, not great directions While I really enjoyed the personal tours and fun interviews on various cities, I got very turned around multiple times while trying to follow a walking tour. I have excellent sense of direction and am very good at reading maps, I'm also a architect, but the directions are given too fast and too early. Luckily you can pause, rewind and there's a map included that you can access while offline. Worth downloading if you don't mind being lost now and again.

Great content, terrible app Content is outstanding. The issue is the app itself. Several downloads crash the app (Rome-trastevere for example) and simply can't be downloaded. Too bad because the content definitely deserves 5 stars

The Best Travel Companion The walking tours are fabulous. They introduce everything in the easiest way, and take the trouble and frustration out of figuring out how to do it. Lots of background information about the cultures and history. Educational and enjoyable. Great for solo travellers! And/or for preparing your trip.

amazing thank you so much for this free and great app. went to Rome and used it all over the place and Rick's commentaries were such a perfect soundtrack. The information was comprehensive, entertaining but not over the top or boring. They also serve to keep you moving at an appropriate pace rather than dawdling. I will definitely be downloading and using these guides in future. The author and guide interviews were also interesting, entertaining and informative.

I found the walking tours provided great context for the sights that I was seeing, in a convenient firm factor. The directions were easy to follow; and in the few cases where I got off track, the map feature was a great help. Beware, though: the app might crash if you take a picture while the audio is playing. Fortunately, it's easy enough to find your pace again, thanks to the various seeking features in the player.

I used this app recently to download and follow a walking tour of Pompei, Italy. The walking tour was easy to follow, and included highlights that the larger guided tours missed. Overall, the experience was fantastic, and saved me €90 for a private guided tour. The app is easy to use and performed perfectly, even on my old, beat up phone (Samsung Captivate, running 4.4). I wish I had found this app sooner, and look forward to using it again.

Crashes when I try to use it I love Rick's books and was excited to give this audio series a try. I open the app and select a country (Italy) and the app crashes at the first input, select city or scroll and it crashes

No Glitches - Works Smoothly on GS5 After reading the one/two star reviews, I thought, "Oh no, say it ain't so Rick!"...but happily the app keeps humming along...seems like they've fixed whatever bugs impeded the GS5, causing crashes. With Rick's high standards, I can't believe he'd sit still for a so-so app...so far so good.

Crash Alert Can't use the app at all - it crashes when I select something to download, when I'm just scrolling through, when I have it open and do nothing. Came highly recommended but is absolutely useless.

I don't hate: it does nothing Well, it does act like it's going to let me download tracks, but then, every time, "unfortunately, Rick Steves has stopped." Actually this is worse than doing nothing because I totally get my hopes up. Every time. I know, that's on me: fool me twice...

Best travel companion If you are a frequent traveller then you are either living in the pre-ricksteve era or the more glorious post-ricksteve era :) The app was a total delight during my recent Italy tour. The app does complete justice to the otherwise plan audio tracks. No bugs. No crashes. Easy usage. Al tough if I had to suggest something it would be to use the gps, accelerometer and gyroscope to make the app more fancier and interactive such as navigating precisely and point me there feature like TripAdvisor app.

Great but some things are out of date My whole family used it in Paris. The walking tour of historic Paris worked really well. Louvre was also good but a few paintings have moved. Orsay has moved its paintings around significantly so that didn't work. The commentary is great as always.

Doesn't work After you download content to your playlist and go back to play, you can't get past the first chapter of 0 seconds. Will not play, Will not skip to the next section, nothing it just sits there.

Great content, awful app The content is top notch but the download process is awful. Basically you have of the app open and you can do anything else on your phone or downloads will pause. It takes forever and constant babysitting if you are downloading entire countries. My only advice to users is make sure you load this app and get all the content you need well before your trip.

Audio, picture and Map in one app. Rick steves audio tour app are very informative. All audio content,picture and Map are integrated into an app.It run so stable and rock solid on Samsung Alpha android 4.4 and 5.0.2

Not downloading I have galaxy sIII and its NOT downloading whether I m doing it on wifi or satelite internet. I have been using it last year on my ipad and it was great. Was trying to avoid bringing ipad on my next trip but I guess I ll have too. I downloaded most of the available guides in few min on ipad. Some failed to be dowloaded.